Explorers suffered extreme frostbite in the dangerously cold conditions, leading Lifson to wonder if these publicity-seekers were undone by believing their own propaganda.

They need to alter their mindset to not believe their own propaganda, like Al Gore. You won’t soon see Al too afraid of greenhouse gases not to fly in a private plane, stop heating his mansions and pools, or to travel to the North Pole. The latter is a good thing, because given his current size and color, he’d be at an extreme risk of being humped to death by a turned-on polar bear.